Reynolds Nancy Y
J Womens Hist. 2011;23(3):63-88. doi: 10.1353/jowh.2011.0031.
This article investigates change and continuity in anxieties about shopping during the first half of the twentieth century in Egypt to argue that department stores and their salesclerks became critical sites for enacting and challenging new notions of sexuality and citizenship. Retail innovations, such as commission pay, display, free entry, and large commercial staffs, became understood as sexual and moral problems because department stores blurred the boundaries between classes and were public spaces where unrelated men and women could mix. These concerns about sexuality in the 1920s were recycled and amplified in the late 1940s and early 1950s when salesclerks again came under scrutiny during debates over citizenship and ethnicity. I argue that the particular way this latter debate was barnacled by the concerns of the 1920s helped to delineate the broader society's reaction to the challenges of defining Egyptian nationality.
本文考察了20世纪上半叶埃及人对购物的焦虑情绪的变化与延续，旨在论证百货商店及其店员成为了践行和挑战新的性观念与公民身份观念的关键场所。诸如佣金支付、陈列展示、免费入场以及庞大的商业员工队伍等零售创新，被视为性与道德问题，因为百货商店模糊了阶级界限，且是男女可以在其中交往的公共场所。20世纪20年代对性方面的这些担忧，在20世纪40年代末和50年代初被重新提及并放大，当时在关于公民身份和种族的辩论中，店员再次受到审视。我认为，后一场辩论因20世纪20年代的担忧而受到影响，这一特殊方式有助于勾勒出更广泛社会对界定埃及国籍挑战的反应。
